# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rick-van-den-hurk
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:03:31.465Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rick-van-den-hurk"
name: "Rick van den Hurk"
slug: "rick-van-den-hurk"
description: "Henricus \"Rick\" Nicolas van den Hurk is a Dutch former professional baseball pitcher. He pitched in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Florida Marlins, Baltimore Orioles, and Pittsburgh Pirates, in the KBO League for the Samsung Lions, and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks and Tokyo Yakult Swallows. He pitched for the Netherlands national team in international tournaments."
tagline: "Dutch former professional baseball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rick_VandenHurk_on_September_1%2C_2011.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Netherlands"
  isoCode: "NL"
birthDate: "1985-05-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.11
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.261308
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/rickvandenhurk"
    handle:    "rickvandenhurk"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/rick_vdhurk/"
    handle:    "rick_vdhurk"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%91%9E%E5%85%8B%C2%B7%E8%8C%83%E7%99%BB%E8%B5%AB%E5%85%8B"
    title: "瑞克·范登赫克"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%83"
    title: "ريك ڤان دين هورك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_van_den_Hurk"
    title: "Rick van den Hurk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_VandenHurk"
    title: "Rick VandenHurk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%B3%E3%83%87%E3%83%B3%E3%83%8F%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF"
    title: "リック・バンデンハーク"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A6%AD_%ED%8C%90_%EB%8D%B4_%ED%9C%98%EB%A5%B4%ED%81%AC"
    title: "릭 판 덴 휘르크"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_van_den_Hurk"
    title: "Rick van den Hurk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_min_nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_VandenHurk"
    title: "Rick VandenHurk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2682031"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump